Pros
I work with a company full of caring, creative, brilliant people who put their heart and soul into everything they do including reimagining the way society authenticates and authorizes transactions in the banking, healthcare, and retail industries. As a full stack developer with a front end focus, I use cutting-edge technologies including React, Material UI, Flutter, and Adobe XD daily. I also get to work on other backend services and infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker, Google Cloud Platform), which is pretty tubular. Engineers here have a collaborative mindset, are quite brilliant, operate as one, inspire one another to win, and love doing what engineers do best--building things. I feel the work-from-home days are entirely flexible and there's a lot of days I'll say something like I'm WFS (working from Starbucks) with no issues. That being said, integrity is paramount and are expected to come into the office and, I mean, collaborate with yo' teammates. We have offsite events at Urban Axes, Top Golf, K1 Speed, Blazer Tag, and more. We do happy hours all the time and we rotate on trips to Norway for weeks at a time. And we also attend conferences like Google Cloud Next out in Cali. I really think we have fun together as a company and take time to celebrate! Hallelujah! We get snacks! Chocolate muffins, Cheetos, Coca-Cola, Topo Chico, and loads of cheeses to name just a few of my favorites. And we also have this great, big automatic coffee machine that makes, um, coffee. I only drink about 10000 cups a day.
Cons
Our Austin office is in the heart of downtown. If you live in the outlying areas, your commute may be long during rush hour. In reference to the Lean Startup by Eric Ries and as part of our new direction, we had to pivot to a new venture and there was a bit of instability half a year ago or so. That being said, we now have our feet on the ground and are running forward with the new vision. It's funny because I came from a Fortune 50 company (HP) that had these sorts of issues and worse. We're in the early stage of our new product (AllClear ID CrossChannel™) within a startup-esque atmosphere. There's this idea of cross-functional roles which may be a turnoff to those that just want to stay specialized or stick with what they've been doing forever. For now, we operate within a financial runway (quite a bit of runway though) which can be potentially nerve-wracking.
